Creating Sore Lullaby’s downtempo version

After creating the house-inflected original version the trio reworked Sore Lullaby into a trip-hop influenced alternative mix

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The inspiration for the downtempo version started with the snare, which is inspired by listening to classic Massive Attack records. TB: “[Luke and I] listened to the vocals and synths on their own and looked at each other and both said ‘that’s Massive Attack’. So we listened to a few of their tracks and singled out a snare sound, then built it from that sound.”

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The laidback flavour is added to with a sampled drum loop. “This comes from a jazz sample. I think it was a 170bpm drum loop that’s slowed right down. That’s why this track was really easy to make, it was basically a kick, snare and hi-hat loop.”

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The melodic synth riffs and vocals are carried over in full from the house version. TB: “I noticed when I opened this project that I’ve muted and hidden a load of vocal parts too, so there must have been a point where we were going to use more vocals but decided against it.”

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TB: “The bass is different, although we’re still using the same TAL Juno-60 replica. It’s the same bass sound used on the original version, but we’ve replayed it differently. Other than that it’s just the drums and the tempo that have changed.”

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The vocal is the same recording, but slowed down drastically in BPM. TB: “It fit perfectly. I used Logic to do it. I tried with Melodyne but gave up with that in the end. I worked so fast with Logic’s Flex Pitch. It needed quite a bit of shifting about because the new rhythm is quite heavily swung, so I just grab the vocal hits to move them.”